Colleges are de-emphasizing physical education, yet many are building state-of-the-art gyms. Gannett

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Kim Painter
| USA Today

Just 39 percent of four-year colleges had physical education requirements in 2010, down from two-thirds in the 1980s and 1990s and 97 percent in the 1920s, say researchers who checked the websites of 354 randomly selected schools.